The code of health and longevity, or, a general view of the rules and principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life / by John Sinclair.

  • Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.
Date:
1844
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    municated the most important results, which reason, experience, and reading had taught him, regarding the effects of external substances upon health. A translation into French, was executed by Dr Odier, one of the ablest physicians in Switzerland, who considered the work, as likely to prove of such utility to the science of medicine, that he was induced, not only to insert a translation of it in his Bibliotheque ** Britanniquey* but also to publish it in a separate volume. In regard to several English writers, who have avail- ed themselves of the information which this work con- tains, the Author wishes them much success in their endeavours to benefit their fellow men. Nothing in- deed can be more desirable, than to aid in removing or mitigating the various ills which flesh is heir to ; and a high gratification must be felt by those, who even in- directly contribute to promote so important an object, by giving circulation and publicity to the opinions and discoveries of others, who have assiduously laboured in so good a cause. Edinburgh.